Word association profiles and their use for automated scoring of essays

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 1148-1158

  Klebanov, Beata Beigman ^a   Flor, Michael ^a  

^a Educational Testing Service   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

COLLEGE GRADUATES; IMPROVE-A; TARGET AUDIENCE; WORD ASSOCIATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84907371924     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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